Effects of stress paths on the small-strain stiffness of completely decomposed granite

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1200-1211

  Wang, Y ^a,b   Ng, C W W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Completely decomposed granite; Compression; Extension; Nonlinearity; Recent stress history; Small strains

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; DECOMPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COMPLETELY DECOMPOSED GRANITE; SHEAR STIFFNESS; SMALL STRAINS;

GRANITE;

DECOMPOSITION; GRANITE; STIFFNESS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 27744565351     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t05-009     Document Type: Article

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